Gustav Adolphus SCHNEEBELI

(1853-1923)

SCHNEEBELI, Gustav
Adolphus, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Neusalz, Germany, May 23, 1853; immigrated to the United States
with his parents, who settled in Bethlehem, Pa.; attended the
Moravian Parochial School; later moved to Nazareth, Pa., and
entered upon a mercantile career; founded the knit-goods industry
of the Nazareth Waist Co.; in 1888 he established a lace
manufacturing company, of which he became sole owner; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3,
1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the
Sixtieth Congress; continued in the lace manufacturing business
until his death in Nazareth, Northampton County, Pa., February 6,
1923; interment in Moravian Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present